FILM
Damien Chazelle is known for his musical movie chops, having directed La La Land and, earlier, this crashing drama of drumming
What is Whiplash?
Album: Born This Way
Year: 2011
Who is Lady Gaga?
These three American leagues make up the "big three" sports
What are the NFL, NBA, and MLB?
There was a brief pirate republic in this Caribbean town.
Where is Nassua?
Mario didn’t first appear on the NES’s Super Mario Bros, his debut was in this arcade game.
What is Donkey Kong?
Steven Spielberg has said that his Jurassic Park and Jaws were inspired by this 1954 film! He said it was masterful, claiming it made you feel it “was really happening!”
What is GODZILLA?
Song: Hey Ya!
Year: 2003
Who is Outkast?
This player holds the record for most cumulative points scored in the history of the NBA.
Who is LeBron James
This long and influential document ends: “Workers of the world, unite!”
Link, from the Legend of Zelda, is sometimes after this magical geometric trinket, said to be powered by the three goddesses.
What is the Triforce?
The iconic “Dolly Zoom” was first used in this director’s “Vertigo”
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
DAILY DOUBLE
Song: The Imperial March
Year: 1980
This NFL team is the only to have no warm or cool colors in their uniforms, only neutrals.
Who are the Raiders?
This Southern President passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson? (He was never shot.)
The first trio of starter Pokemon were these three cuties!
Who are Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander?
This odyssey-ing director, not Christopher Nolan, is known for making his actors excessively repeat takes, including a rumored 127 take scene in “The Shining”
Who is Stanley Kubrick?
Album: The Wall
Song: Comfortably Numb
Year: 1979
Who is Pink Floyd?
DAILY DOUBLE
Out of the big 3 sports leagues, this franchise holds the record for most championships won.
This 1215 document was one of the first of its kind, limiting the power of English royalty.
What is the Magna Carta?
The FPS genre of gaming was heavily inspired by this hellish nineties title.
What is Doom?
The highest rated film on the website Letterboxd is the Japanese film is named for its featured method of samurai suicide (it’s not Seppuku!)
What is Harakiri?
Album: We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll
Year: 1976
Who is Black Sabbath?
This college football team holds the record for most one-sided victory in football history, winning 222-0 against Cumberland in 1916.
Who is Georgia Tech?
North Vietnamese forces were led by this famous, or infamous, Marxist who would later become Vietnamese president and is namedropped in We Didn't Start The Fire
This franchise features many installments, music from Nobuo Uematsu, and an evil clown Kefka.
What is Final Fantasy?